Shorter Ann "I see the evil in the Clenis's socks" Althouse: "I can't believe that a sex scandal is distracting us from substantive discussion of the Iraq War! Besides, as the wise Mickey Kaus points out, the media should only cover one anti-Republican story at...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Seems about right.
Ah, finally data to back up my frequent assertion that we'll have a female and African-American president far before we'll have an atheist or gay president. (And my guess is.
AL preview here (and, hey, ain't that completely unjustifiable A's pick looking better!) Before we move on, a couple of notes. First, a quibble with esteemed commenter jrd, who says that "the Twins have a better offense, a better bullpen, and play better defense." Their...
Shorter Verbatim Rick Santorum: "You probably remember well when Bill Clinton and the Democrats passed the largest single tax increase in our nation's history in 1993, $293 billion. That sent.
Glenn Reynolds. (I'm also shocked that such a steadfast, principled supporter of gay rights would think that an individual's inappropriate behavior with pages is somehow the responsibility of gay people.
Shorter Sebastian Mallaby(and, of course, Glenn Reynolds:) The fact that the Democrats took a strong, unyielding stand against privatizing Social Security, and refuse to accept my specious and intellectually dishonest conflation of Social Security and Medicare, proves that they are completely unprincipled.See also Yglesias. And...
Tigers vs. Profoundest Manifestation of Evil on Face of Earth. Let's pretend I was a good contrarian writing for Slate. Unlike a Slate contrarian, I could actually marshall some evidence..
Lord Saletan triumphantly (re)discovers that pro-lifers may not be entirely consistent when it comes to protecting fetal life, and that there may be a "new" strategy that points out this.
Brad DeLong's son asks:First, neither wing of the original Federalist Party was "strict constructionist." The Hamilton-Adams wing was aggressively eager to expand the power of the federal government from the get-go. The Madison-Jefferson wing protested severely as long as the levers of power were in...
Amanda reports on This Film Is Not Yet Rated (which I haven't yet seen):A couple of the directors, notably Kevin Smith and John Waters, draw a direct parallel between the.
Could the Tigers win one goddamned game against the Royals? Yeesh. The first round is just going to be a massacre.